#gramscianism

[demonpoetlilith]

gentle meadows makes me despair over missing something of whose concepts are too forgotten to articulate meaningfully. the independent will of capital has replaced the web of wills characterizing nature with the cage-like industrial streets of modernity

[citizenalien-blog]

‘Conscious Eurocentrism’... is found in those writers who explicitly celebrate all things Western while consciously or explicitly denigrating all things Eastern. ‘Subliminal Eurocentrism’ is much more subtle, though no less Orientalist. It does not celebrate the West but is highly critical of it. But what makes it Eurocentric is the assumption that the West lies at the centre of all things in the world and that the West self-generates through its own endogenous ‘logic of immanence’, before projecting its global will-to-power outwards through a one-way diffusionism so as to remake the world in its own image. ... Gramscian [neo-Marxist] [International Relations theory] prides itself on its ability to locate counter-hegemonic resistance. But by elevating world politics/economics into a panopticonesque Western fetish the prospects for Eastern resistance are unwittingly demoted. [...] Thus the West (specifically the US) is represented as the subject of globalisation while the East is viewed as its passive object.

John M. Hobson ('Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? Beyond Westphilian towards a post-racist critical IR', Review of International Studies (33), 2007)

This speaks to liberalism and various strands of Marxism. A very interesting paper.